Media: 18th-century Copiale Cipher solved by statistical algorithm

Submitter:

Brent
Woo

Submitter Email:

bwoo@linguistlist.org

Linguistic Field(s):

Computational Linguistics
Translation
Writing Systems

Media Body:

A team of Swedish and American linguists use translation techniques similar to the statistical algorithm used in Google Translate to crack the heretofore undeciphered 18th-century Copiale Cipher. The Voynich Manuscript remains impregnable.